Miguel Ventura Terra practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Miguel Ventura Terra as Portuguese architect (1866-1919).
Miguel Ventura Terra was born at Seixas in 1866. His recorded nationality is Portugal. He trained at University of Porto.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect and politician.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Portugal shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Miguel Ventura Terra died in 1919, aged 53. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at University of Porto
